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Marigold

What are other examples of homographs(words w/ the same spelling but diff. pronunciation and meaning)?

e.g. bow – a looped knot

bow – bend head and body forward

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babycakes

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wind- to twist

wind- blowing air

read- present tense (ex. i want to read war and peace)

read- past tense (ex. last week i read to kill a mockingbird)

sin- transgression

sin- symbol, trigonometry

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A few days ago
Toni P
bass

** (n) Joey auditioned for the band while it was seeking someone to play bass.

** (n) The store was selling an animatronic bigmouth bass that would open its mouth and sing “Take Me to the River” whenever someone passed by.

close

** (v) Cliff still has to close his eyes to be able to eat calamari.

** (a) It seemed that the story in the newspaper had hit a little too close to home.

conflict

** (n) The mother said to her belligerent son, “Violence is no way to resolve conflict!”

** (v) The two news reports seem to conflict each other.

*do

** , (v) What do you think you are doing?

** (n) To warm-up, the singer sang the scale from do.

*dove

** (n) The dove is a kind of bird.

** (v) He dove into the pool

number

** (n) What is your phone number?

** (a) My cold toes were number than hers.

present

** (a) All need to be present for a unanimous vote.

** (n)

** (v) He will present his ideas to the Board of Directors tomorrow.

read

** The new Jonathan Safran Foer book is an awful read.

** Once I had read the note I tore it into little bits and swallowed them

record

** AmE BrE (n) She played a vinyl record on her old turntable.

** BrE (v) Did he record the concert with his camcorder?

*refuse

** (v) If you refuse the background check, we cannot hire you.

** (n) Please clean up all of your refuse.

*resume

** Resume breathing or you will surely faint!

** My resume makes ample use of the font Impact

wind

** How did we wind up in Kansas?

** The wind blew from the northeast

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Example Of Homograph Words
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Danah
english

-people who live in england

-a language

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Tear – you cry a tear or to rip something
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Anonymous
address

-to address someone

-place where you are staying at

Close

-near

-to close

and many more, you can go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_homographs

http://www.opundo.com/homographs.htm

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/wordlist/homogrph.html

Hope it can help XD

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